Built by one researcher,
for all researchers.

CropForge was created by Saswat Sundar Rath, a student researcher at ICAR-IARI Jharkhand, as an answer to a recurring problem — existing crop simulation tools were either closed-source, configuration-heavy, or too opaque to extend meaningfully.

The goal: a runtime that treats simulation as code, not configuration. Where every model, every parameter, and every assumption is explicit and inspectable. Where extending the physics means writing a Python class, not editing XML.

CropForge began as a concept — what if we could see the farm truly, in real time, on any device, with full freedom? A degree of visualisation once thought possible only on supercomputers. That game-like ambition became the stepping stone. Over successive releases it grew from a simple time-stepped prototype into a full-stack simulation runtime with opt-in physics, a terrain engine, sediment dynamics, WebGL visualisation, and first-class GLTF export.

// MIT licensed and built in the open. Contributions, critique, and collaboration are welcome.